Improved nickeifr-faced type



LUTHERIl; SMITH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 95,053,

dated Septmbm' 21, 1869.

IMPROVED NICKEH-FACEID TYPE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the camev To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUTHER L. SMITH, of the city of Brooklyn, have invented a new and improved Mode of llIctal-l acing Typo and Stereotype-Plates made from movable type.

I am aware that metallic printing-type have been covered with a coatin of copper: andsome other met als, For the purpose 0' making them harder and more cnduring, and for other purposes, but I believe that I am the first person who has successfully covered metallic printing-type with nickel, and I have discovered that metallic type coated with nickel are betterthan the same type coated with copper, or with any other metal with which I have ever known them to be coated in several respects.

First. Nickel is much harder than copper, or any other metal that has heretofore been used for coating metallic type, and therefore a nickel-plated type of a certain thicknesswill wear longer than type plated with the same thickness of any other metal that has heretofore been used for that purpose.

Second. It is possible, without producing a mat sur face, to electro-plate with nickel to a greater thickness than it is possible to elcctro-plate with copper, or any other metal that has heretofore been used for coating type, and therefore it is possible to electro-plate metallic type with a thicker coating of nickel than of copper, or any other metal that-has heretofore been used for coating such type, and yet leave the surface of the type smooth and regular.

Third. Nickel-plated type are preferable for printing with colored inks to metallic type plated with copper, for the component parts of various colored inks that act upon the copper coating will not act at all, or only slightly, upon themickel coating.

Ordinary metallic type may be coated with nickel by the process described in Lettels Patent, dated the 3d of August, 1869, and issued to Isaac Adams, Jr., for improvements in the electro-deposition of nickel, and this is the process that I have used, but I do not confine my invention to type plated by that process.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The clectro-plating of metallic type and of electrotype or stcreotype-plates'made from movable type with nickel, and thus producing an improved type or plate.

2. A metallic type, electro-platcd with nickel, or a stereotype-plate made from movable type and electroplated with nickel, as a new article of manufacture:

The above specification of said invention signed a d witnessed at New York, this 14th day of August, A.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS B. An'rz, CHAS. O. BEAMAN, Jr.

LUTHER L. SMITH. 

